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July 3, 2018Indigenous remains return home to Kahnawake
Montreal mayor Valerie Plante continued to show the city’s dedication to reconciliation in returning Mohawk remains to Kahnawake in a ceremony at City Hall in the Old Port.
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May 23, 2018Award-winning authors to embrace in the sun
The temperature looks set to stay in an agreeable zone for the near future, and there is no better time to chill poolside, in a park, under a tree or on a terrasse with a good book.
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May 17, 2018Mikinak founder explains lineage, status card
Former Mikinak leader Lise Brisebois received First Nation status under the Indian Act last year, and people in Kahnawake and Kanesatake are not happy about it.
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May 8, 2018“Mohawk Law” violates human rights
In 2014 there was a sign campaign by community members, some of them like this one on the Old Malone Highway remain.
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March 19, 2018Indigenizing a campus, inspiring a city
From left to right Tanu Lusignan, Kale Phillips, Jennifer Paul, Belle Phillips, David Pearson and Tahothoratie Cross have started something at Champlain College in St. Lambert that is inspiring Anglo CEGEPs across Montreal to emulate, in efforts to indigenize their campuses.
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February 6, 2018"Indigenous" group raises eyebrows with protest
The Communauté Hochelaga de l’Iroquoisie had a tipi erected from November until January in Saint-Adolphe-d’Howard in protest of Hydro Quebec’s 120-kV Grand-Brûlé’Saint-Sauveur Supply Line project. (Courtesy Daniel “Black Feather” Larmand /Facebook)
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December 21, 2017Locals caught in tobacco operation
Tobacco, money, and a boat that was used to transport the tobacco were seized by the RCMP in a recent investigation dubbed Project Cendrier.
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December 18, 2017Longhouse and hotel welcome global cohort
On the final day of last week’s three-day workshop in Kahnawake, participants from across the globe lined up and had their passports stamped by assistant secretary of the Mohawk Nation at Kahnawake Lynne Norton.
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September 15, 2017Celebrating a decade of rights at the United Nations
Wednesday afternoon’s panel discussion on the 10th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples included Kenneth Deer, Jennifer Preston, Romeo Saganash, Marie Wilson, with moderation by APTN’s Monika Ille.
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August 31, 2017Protestors halt construction at site
When Ellen Gabriel showed up at the Collines d’Oka just outside of the Village of Oka, a non-Native development in the shadow of the famed Pines in Kanesatake, she was incensed at what she saw: another hole being dug for the foundation of a new home, despite continued calls to halt all construction.
